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Jocephus wrote:yeah but where does it rank
That is an excellent question. As the baseball season draws near, I need to get back into form. I am not BSOML yet with regard to ranking the best days of my life.

Let's see:

The baby slept through the night and didn't wake me up til 6:15. I had a chocolate chip and pumpkin muffin for breakfast. I went for an enjoyable lunchtime run along a beautiful creek trail in sunny, 75 degree weather. And I just won the most significant case of my life at the state supreme court.* Based on the work of my quantitative analysts, today is the 102nd best day of my entire life.



*if anyone is bored/cares, read about it here: http://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/19/ ... ss-cities/

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heyzeus wrote:*if anyone is bored/cares, read about it here: http://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/19/ ... ss-cities/
Kind of a terrifying ruling there.

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wart57 wrote:
go birds wrote:a turkey and miracle whip sando after thanksgiving wooooooooooo
Tuna salad made with miracle whip - yummy yummy.
Don't forget the sweet pickle relish :wink:

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Arthur Dent wrote:
heyzeus wrote:*if anyone is bored/cares, read about it here: http://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/19/ ... ss-cities/
Kind of a terrifying ruling there.
Kind of the opposite. TCEQ had granted itself the authority to ignore state law and take water from farmers to give it to cities without compensation. Couple of things wrong with that: 1. Only idiotic cities don't plan for droughts by acquiring sufficient water supplies. If a city hits the point where it's out of water, that's a betrayal of the public trust that borders on the criminal. 2. If a city somehow reached that point, and needed water, it can do that right now - but it has to pay for it. TCEQ's rule, which is now struck down, let them have it for free - taken from farmers who lose their entire crop and face economic ruin because the town down the road couldn't be bothered to contract with a river authority for a reliable water supply. That's terrifying.

No city in Texas is going to run out of water thanks to this ruling. If there's ever an emergency, they can get it using other procedures. They just have to actually pay for it.

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Only in [expletive] DC can you get stuck in a 15 minute traffic jam in a grocery store parking lot.

(also, congrats, zeus)

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I don't expect a work bathroom to smell like a peach, but the one where I am now smells like a sewage backup today. And of course it happens on the same day my desk gets relocated... next to the bathroom.

It's gotten to the point I'm rubbing hand sanitizer underneath my nose because it's preferable to the stank.

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Doing my best ice cube impersonation rip rap bracket.

I went to my cabin today, I gotta say today it was a good day.

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I guess Starbucks changed its reward program where customers are rewarded for spending more instead of per visit. Lot of people ranting on Twitter about how they only buy black coffee and are getting the shaft.

If you only drink black coffee, why the hell go to Starbucks?

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I really hate the "Damn, Daniel!" meme.

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I know that smoking is dumb and bad for you and all, but the "Stop smoking because you'll kill internet cat videos" ad is possibly the dumbest ad I've ever seen.

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